It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.
If you pay close attention to each day, you will discover the magic moment.
All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.
If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty.
I'm not a good observer. I'm not proud of it.
Dogs help you to appreciate the world around you. They smell the ground so intensely. They look at the trees as though they are seeing them for the first time. It helps us to remember the wonders that we take for granted.
Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
